RPI Players Presents Evening of One-Acts

Posted by Gail M. Burns - February 2010

Event: The RPI Players present An Evening of Performance
Time/Date: Friday, February 19; Saturday, February 20; Friday, February 26; Saturday, February 27 at 8pm; Sunday, February 21 at 2pm
Location: The RPI Playhouse, RPI Campus, 15th Street, Troy
Telephone: (518) 276-6503

AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCE
Produced by Tim Wickberg

$10 General Admission
$8 Students/Seniors
$5 with RPI ID

This is the RPI Players’ annual night of one-act plays. This year will
feature:

WANDA’S VISIT(Cast: 3m, 2f, 1s)
Written by Christopher Durang
Directed by Daren Domingos

An unhappily married couple have their relationship rocked by an obtrusive, uninvited guest in the form of the husband’s high school sweetheart, Wanda. Wanda turns the couple’s stagnant life upside down while nearly driving them insane. As the play progresses, Wanda’s social Faux pas and abrasive personality make the couple almost relieved when she is kidnapped by two men directed by her kingpin ex-boyfriend.

WINTER FRUIT (Cast: 3m, 2f)
Written by Allison Menzimer
Directed by Samantha Malanche

Winner of the 2008 Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences Playwriting award, /Winter Fruit/ is a modernized re-telling of the Greek tale of Persephone’s abduction to the Underworld. After being ripped from a familiar life of grass, music, the moon and a lover, Persephone befriends two of Hades’ servants who attempt to aid her return to home “above”. However, her imprisonment and resignation to being an ill-made queen fades her memory and Persephone’s perception of what is “home” may very well change for good.

ARTIST DESCENDING A STAIRCASE (Cast: 6m, 1f) Written by Tom Stoppard Directed by Tom Kinstrey

Tom Stoppard’s Artist Descending a Staircase is a comedic murder mystery focusing on three artists. When Beauchamp and Martello come home to find that their lifelong friend and colleague, Donner, has mysteriously fallen down a staircase to his death, the artists begin a series of flashbacks that uncover the truth behind their careers in art, their experiences with a beautiful young blind girl 50 years before, and the events leading to Donner’s death.

The RPI Players is a student run community theatre. While RPI students are the primary participants in the organization, auditions and production roles are open to all community members.

For more information visit www.players.rpi.edu or
Phone: 518-276-6503
Contact: players@union.rpi.edu
For reservations: (518) 276-6503 or www.players.rpi.edu

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